Excel Charts vs PivotCharts | Comparison | Which is Best?
Posted on: 04/08/2022
Which is best in Excel? Classic CHARTS or PIVOTCHARTS? In today's Excel video, I show you both ways of creating charts in Excel, show you step by step what's involved in each method and which one is the most flexible, powerful and which one I prefer.

Charts vs. PivotCharts
We take a look at creating some classic charts (in Excel, the shortcut is ALT + F1), using a date-based cell range, and I show you how to customize the appearance to skip dates without data.
The second method, using PivotCharts, is also demonstrated in this tutorial and we look at how easy it is to create a PivotTable and then a PivotChart from it, and with a few clicks, obtain a powerful and flexible chart.
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00:00 Introduction
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00:17 Creating a classic chart
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02:10 Creating a PivotChart
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03:15 Closing remarks
Keyboard shortcuts to create a chart
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F11 - Create a chart on a separate worksheet
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ATL + F1 - create a chart on the current worksheet
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Chris Menard is a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) and is employed full-time as a Trainer for BakerHostetler, one of the nation’s largest law firms. Menard has a YouTube channel with other 750 technology videos covering Excel, Word, Zoom, Teams, Outlook, Gmail, Google Calendar, and other resources that over 10 million viewers have appreciated.
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